Bernie Sanders Interview With Iowa Press

Bernie Sanders represents Vermont in the United States but now seeking the democratic presidential nomination he's

representing or at least resonating strongly with those in the party seeing this election as

he knows governor four terms as Burlington Vermont mayor eight terms and US house of representatives now

in his second senator and welcome back I will press your second visit here thank you very much for inviting you know I

I delineated here your your political career there been some wins some losses and over that time you fill

I think explains the momentum and the energy and enthusiasm in our campaign all over this country in the future turnouts

were getting listing people I think are sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment economics I

think most Americans understand that there's something fundamentally wrong when the middle class continues to disappear and

resonating and I want to introduce awaken continue the questions here senator across the table James

Lynch who writes for the Gazette published in cedar rapids and radio I was news director Kate hinders senator

on the Republican side we have Republican candidates saying their very first act as president would be to for instance tear up the deal with Iran for

tourists and every executive order that president Obama has issue as president what would be the very first thing that a president Sanders went I

don't think there is a first thing I I think what we have got to do or is work

to create a movement which is prepared to take on the billionaire class which today has

so much power and what we need is a set of policies designed to expand the middle class and

the shrinking middle class that we have seen for forty years and the man that the wealthiest people in this country start paying their

fair share of tax so the agenda that we are talking about Kerry is a federal jobs program to rebuild our crumbling infrastructure creating

women women work to make certain that public colleges and universities in this country ought to wish and free and

that we deal with this outrageous situation of high student and we fund by asking Wall Street to pay a tax on

trade deals some not so recent do you believe as president you would have the authority to unravel some of your heart I

think for four months for Iowa and for virtually the entire country all trade agreements like nafta Catherine permanent normal trade relations with China by

and large been a disaster I voted against all of them and I'm hoping to lead the effort right now against the transpacific plot at

the end of the day I think what Americans perceive from Wesley white there is momentum for our campaign these trade agreements were written by

corporate America were written by Wall Street the goal was to shut down plants in America to stop having to pay workers and I were for my this

country decent wages moved to China pay people low wages and bring their products back on supported by democratic